Chicken Garden - Are These Alright?

[TillinWithMyPeeps]

I was just putting in a seed order for my Chicken Garden, a small garden completely for my chickens. I just wanted to make sure the following would be alright for them to eat:

Calendula
Rainbow Swiss Chard
Carrots
Buttercrunch Lettuce
Turnip Greens
Collard Vates (Collard Greens?)
Tomatoes

Any advice is appreciated!
Is there anything not listed that sould be in the garden?

Thanks!

 

[Lesa]

The one flower in my chicken area that they did not ever touch- even when everything else was gone was a clump of calendula. I could not get my chickens interested in carrots. They would half heartedly munch on the carrot tops, but would not touch carrots themselves. I did grind some up small and add it to oatmeal, which they did eat. I don't think you need to go crazy, if you plant nothing but swiss chard, they will be thrilled! I froze a bunch of mine and thaw it out for them in winter. They love it!! The wild birds planted a clump of sunflowers. The chickens let them grow and then ate them when the seeds developed. I was surprised they didn't just destroy them...

 

[TillinWithMyPeeps]

That is really weird that they wouldn't go for the calendula, supposedly it makes really nice colored egg yolks. I hope that mine will eat it. (I think the petals are what they are supposed to eat)

It sounds like you have some genius chickens though, cultivating their own food

 

[phalenbeck]

Tomato--Tomato and more tomato. Mine were nuts for Pumpkins.

 

[Catalina]

Cucumbers! Pumkins! Squash! Watermelons or any kind of melon. Cabbage - I grew baby cabbage last year- it was very popular.
Kale - super easy and very popular.
Broccoli and cauliflower - also super popular, even the stocks and roots.
My girls like carrots- I buy them from the store, in the winter, just for them.
What ever you plant - plant 10x the amount you think they will eat.

 

[North Briton]

Hi Guys, Some info....

.Plants Poisonous to Poultry

Aconitum sp.---monkshood---leaves
Actea pachypoda---white baneberry, cohosh---berries
Agrostemma githago---common corn cockle---seeds
Araujia sericifera---no other info available
Arisaema triphyllum---jack-in-the-pulpit---roots and stems
Asclepias mexicana, syriaca, tuberosa, verticillata---milkweed, silkweed, cottonweed---tops more toxic than roots
Cicula maculata---poison hemlock, spotted hemlock, cowbane, water hemlock---roots and young shoots
Colchicum autumnale---Autumn crocus---roots and stems
Conium maculata---spotted parsley, carrot fern, poison hemlock---all plant parts
Convallaria majalis---Lily-of-the-Valley---roots and stems
Cocoa waste
Crotalaria---250 species---seeds
Daphne mezereum---february daphne---berries
Datura stramonium---jimson weed, thorn apple, stinkwort, Jamestown weed---leaves, roots and seeds
Daubentonia---no other info
Delphinium sp.---larkspur---foliage
Dicentra sp.---Bleeding heart, dutchman's breeches---roots and stems
Digitalis purpurea---foxglove---leaves
Equisetum arvense, hymale---horsetail, scouring rush---leaves and stems
Erysimum crepidifolium---hedge mustard---all plant parts
Eupatorium rugosum---white snakeroot---all plant parts
Gloriosa superba---gloriosa lily---roots and stems
Glottidium vesicarium---harper seed---seeds
Hedera sp.---all english ivies---berries
Hyacynthus sp.---hyacinth---roots and stems
Iris sp. ---iris, flags---roots and stems
Laburnum anagyroides, vulgare---Golden chain tree---seeds
Menispermum sp.---moonseed---seeds
Mustard---this is a huge family of plants---all species should be deemed toxic
Narcissus sp.---Narcissus, daffodil---roots and stems
Ornithogalum umbellatum---star-of-Bethlehem---roots and stems
Petroselinum sp.---parsley--- roots
Phytolacca americana---pokeberry, poke salad, pokeweed---roots stems and berries
Podophyllum peltatum---mayapple, mandrake---roots stems and berries
Rhum sp.---rhubarb---leaves
Ricinus communis---castor bean---beans (seeds)
Robinia pseudoacacia---black locust tree---fruit and bark
Solanum---potatoe---green sprouts
Solanum nigrum---black nightshade, poisonberry---berries especially when green
Symplocarpus foetidus---skunk cabbage---foliage
Taxus sp.---yews---foliage and berries
Xanthium pennsylvanium---cocklebur, sheepbur, clotbur---foliage especially when young

BEWARE !

http://www.biodynamicorganictinctures.co.uk/1.html


www.lakelandherbs.co.uk


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[cw]

what about ky pole bean its a type of green bean i have bout 500 seeds left from it last year

 

[Hattie the Hen]

Hi there! Try looking at this other BYC item: Feed Marigolds to Chickens for Darker Yolk Color... It has a lot more info.

 

[Skip]

To the person two posts above me, nice list!

This is another one, it lists many more poisonous plants, but there are certain things I know you can feed to chickens that are listed here as poisonous. Certain things you can feed in moderation in this link, such as Amaranth and Pigweed (same thing, really) so don't trust what you read. My advice, look on several sites that say what's poisonous and what's not.

http://www.poultryhelp.com/toxicplants.html

Hope this helps a little.

 

[Catalina]

Pole beans! Good idea! My girls jumped 4 feet off the ground, straight up, to strip the leaves off of my pole beans. Fun to watch!